• Reporting on Ofcom's decision that broadcasters should take more care about transmitting sexually explicit music videos before 9pm, an article said that the decision was prompted partly by "a government-backed report by the Mothers' Union". Later in the story there was a reference to the "Mothers' Union report". This phrasing arose from editing changes. To clarify: the review was led by Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Mothers' Union, but was not a Mothers' Union report. It was commissioned independently by the government and undertaken by officials from the Department for Education (Ofcom gets tough on pre-watershed raunch, 1 October, page 13).

• A sidebar to a story reporting that the Bank of England will produce new banknotes celebrating two pioneers of the industrial revolution suggested that only two women, apart from queens, have ever featured on banknotes. To clarify: this is true of the Bank of England but the Clydesdale bank in Scotland features Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary, on a £10 note and Elsie Inglis, a doctor who set up a maternity home for the poor in Edinburgh, on a £50 note (Notable ladies, 1 October, page 21).

•Obama needs a euro solution; he wants to stay in the White House was amended on 4-5 October 2011 to remove a reference to a post-debate talk between Charles Geisst and William Rhodes, after their appearance in a US panel discussion of the financial crisis. Charles Geisst has asked us to make clear that the two did not, as reported, delve into the subject of the 1982 financial crisis, and that Rhodes did not say to him that US banks were more exposed than people realised at that time.